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Pileated and a Birch Tree
Marc St Louis:
We use a small platform when we feed the birds suet in the Winter and you can easily tell the difference between a Hairy and a Pileated just by the sound. When the Pileated lands it's a thump that can be heard from the other side of the house and their pecking is quite slow and loud
bushboy:
The peckers around here like to hammer on eaves troughs and sattelite dishes,kinda annoying early in the morning!
BowEd:
The red headed here has almost the same type call as the pileated.The red headed's thumping is a fast sticato type.Whle the downies and flickers are a slow thumping type.Downies aggravate us by thumping on tin on steel roofs.Makes quite a racket and heard inside the house.Not much call sounds out of a downie though.
The numbers of pileated are few here in Iowa.They say they are a wary needing more privacy type bird.
Marc St Louis:
--- Quote from: bushboy on May 03, 2018, 08:42:31 am ---The peckers around here like to hammer on eaves troughs and sattelite dishes,kinda annoying early in the morning!
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They do that here as well and it's the Yellow Bellied Sapsucker that is the culprit
Here is a picture I took of a Pileated that was feeding on a suet ball. They are quite comical as they think they see something in the window and cock their heads back and forth glaring with their big eyes to see better. The plate is 12" across
Hawkdancer:
Definitely one big woodpecker. I haven't seen one live since I was in high school, then only id'd it from a picture in my doctor's office. They went pretty rare for quite q while. If I remember correctly, they are the largest of the woodpeckers, and the Ivory billed is next. Neat picture!
Hawkdancer
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